Bronchial asthma and pathological processes in the nasopharynx. I. Clinical analysis during remission and attack

In 54 patients with bronchial asthma and a control group of 15 subjects laryngological, bacteriological and cytological examinations of the nasopharynx were performed. This region was found to be inflamed in 38% of the patients with asthma; in a group of asthmatic patients hypersensitive to aspirin, the percentage rose to 87%. In the asthmatic patients, as compared with the control group, there was a diminished neutrophilic exudate, a marked epithelial desquamation reaction and an abundant lymphocyticosinophilic exudate in a considerable percentage of cases.